Re: [git pull] dentry_unhash() breakage

From: Al Viro
Date: Tue May 31 2011 - 13:34:31 EST


On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 09:26:52AM -0700, Sage Weil wrote:
> On Mon, 30 May 2011, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 06:56:01AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > > A couple of dentry_unhash fallout fixes
> >
> > Shouldn't we do the shrink_dcache_parent only after a successfull
> > rmdir or rename?
>
> Yeah, that makes more sense to me...

No, it doesn't. Let's keep changes to minimum. I *really* don't want
to audit autofs and hell knows how many other places for more or less
subtle breakage caused by that. It's bad enough as it is...
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